African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS name details

Arca kraussii Krauss, 1848

AphiaID

537841 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:537841)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Arca avellana Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Lamarcka avellana (Lamarck, 1819)

Rank

Species

Parent

Arca Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Arca kraussii Krauss, 1848

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 14, pl. 1, fig. 13 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Arca kraussii Krauss, 1848. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=537841 on 2026-09-02

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Arca kraussii Krauss, 1848. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=537841 on 2026-09-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-11-10 15:53:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-11-10 16:07:33Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2025-08-24 10:34:45Z

changed

Herbert, David

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original description Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 14, pl. 1, fig. 13 [details]

additional source Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]

source of synonymy Herbert, D. G. & Warén, A. (1999). South African Mollusca described by Ferdinand Krauss: their current status and notes on type material housed in the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 40: 205-243., available online at https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03040798_101
page(s): 224 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality